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by jlawson 8y ago
>Most of the interesting stuff about how companies grow come down to a relative small period where some key decisions get made (in the tech world at least). I really don't think so. Case in point - The article describes a 17-year gr
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by jlawson 8y ago
That's what the poster meant. She was being pressured to like math; her inherent interest was in animals and babies.
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They are different. The academy, K-12 educational establishment, news and entertainment media are all overwhelmingly ruled by exclusionary leftists. A right-winger cannot avoid massive exposure to their ideas and thus develops coping strate
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by jlawson 8y ago
Not an unknown business structure. E.g.: I hold a party and charge an entrance fee. The early arrivals are in an empty room. If nobody comes after them, they won't have much fun. If you arrive after a critical mass of people is already
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by jlawson 8y ago
The fundamental wrong assumption at the heart of your approach here is: The idea that people "should" be paid according to some measure of their moral worth or moral deservingness. But when people meet to voluntarily make economic
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by jlawson 8y ago
The optimal strategy for iterated prisoner's dilemma is tit for tat.
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by jlawson 8y ago
I just want to point out a mathematical error in your post. You said, "nobody is 100x more efficient than anyone else". This is a reasonable (though not strictly true) statement by itself. But the implication is wrong - nobody nee
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by jlawson 8y ago
You probably don't want to bring up Jews while making this argument, given that their outstandingly high status and wealth in society kind of demonstrates that group social outcomes are more driven by internal characteristics than exte
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by jlawson 8y ago
It's been the status quo for milennia. Just be glad they're bidding wars and not real wars (for the moment).
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by jlawson 8y ago
Sorry, gonna have to fisk this one. >Capacity' to do 'good' (even per your definition) is so strongly reliant on the environment that one exists in Yes, an environment created by the people in your community. Or were you t
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by jlawson 8y ago
You're mixing up goodness as in deserving, vs goodness as in capacity to do good. Spandrell never said anything like smart people are more deserving. He says smart people have more capacity to accomplish things which most people consid
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It was correlated - it wasn't caused. Sorry - grammar eye twitch!
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by jlawson 8y ago
If parental leave is equal between genders, this argument may stand. But beware any unequal treatment of men and women with generous leave. It creates big incentives not to hire women of a certain age and family status. It's a lot hard
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by jlawson 8y ago
You say "a single platform" as though there is another viable platform. Someone tried to set one up. It's called BitChute. All the payment processors blocked it. The reality is that YouTube is not just "a single platform
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by jlawson 8y ago
This doesn't match reality. I've watched lots of conservative videos and I've never seen anything about flat Earth or "insane conspiracy theories". Honestly this comment thread seems like trying to build a narrative
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by jlawson 8y ago
I agree, but I'm not sure any potential union would. E.g. want to hire a union programmer for your 3-person team? Whole studio has to now follow union rules and bring all other developers into the union as well. Forever.
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You could just play indie games. Maybe people are working themselves super-hard to make indie games, but it's self-directed and totally by individual choice. Tons of great indie games out there.
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The modern welfare state (post-1930) did create a huge number of these stunted people. UBI will create many more, and it'll be a generational compounding effect, as the stunting increases through generations and we develop familities w
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by jlawson 8y ago
It's not just Facebook. Jews are massively over-represented at the highest levels of society in most fields. <2% of population in America, <0.25% globally. But: 20% of Nobel prize winners 10-25% of Harvard students (depending on
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by jlawson 8y ago
What rights people have and how those should be applied to real-life situations is a massive ongoing question. Does a woman have a right to an abortion? Does an unborn baby have the right not to be killed? Does a responsible adult have the
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by jlawson 8y ago
It's totally true that there are lots of people in the world who don't have the circumstances to make a business like this happen right now. But there are many, many people who do have the circumstances to make it happen, and who
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by jlawson 8y ago
Interesting view I hadn't heard before. Notably, under the left's view, believing a system is just would require proving a negative. Is basically 'guilty until proven innocent'; a recipe for eternal identitarian strife;
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You wouldn't bother with autonomous drones if you wanted to mass-slaughter civilians. There are much easier ways, like chemical, nuclear, or incendiary weapons.
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It seems that your opinion is: People drink soda unhealthily not because they've been tricked by Coca Cola misinformation campaigns into thinking that soda is healthy. Your view is that people think soda is healthy. To describe the ide
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So to you, there is no level of dominance of channels of communication where a corporation takes on some of the responsibility of managing a public space? If they owned everything minus one, you're 100% okay with them censoring anyone
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If you owned every pub, street, square, coffee shop, theater, restaurant, and other social and public discussion space in the world, do you think it's be fine for you to enforce your arbitrary opinions on everyone in those spaces? What
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by jlawson 8y ago
We all know words can incite harm. Incitement is a specific class of speech that is generally prohibited. I see nobody here arguing against this. However, much speech that is not incitement is also called hate speech, and that part of the V
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by jlawson 8y ago
He's saying that when it comes to serving customers, there are critical concerns besides how good the burger is. E.g. Low cost, made quickly, scalable (easy to train workers from any culture, uses ingredients that can be sourced at sca
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by jlawson 8y ago
You're ascribing extremist anarcho-capitalist views to what you call the 'typical "free marketer"'. This is false; the typical free market advocate understands there is a limited role for government intervention.
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The free market can work very well if various individuals are missing a lot of information. In fact, the free market is the only system known that works so well in situations where every actor is very information-poor. Our economy is far mo

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